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satoru42on JuiceFS is a distributed POSIX file system built on top of Redis and S3

Show me an operating system built on top of a browser that can be used to solve real-world problems like JuiceFS.

satoru42on ManusAI Joins Meta

The last joke I can remember is Meta the name itself.

satoru42on Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg

There's no stupid product, only stupid people.

satoru42on Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels

This explains why the MBTI shit is so popular these days.

satoru42on YouTube's new anti-adblock measures

Tiktok is opium 3.0, but this time it's not UK selling the drugs.

satoru42on Kotlin-Lsp: Kotlin Language Server and Plugin for Visual Studio Code

Got the following error when trying to install it on Cursor:

> Error: Unable to install extension 'jetbrains.kotlin' as it is not compatible with VS Code '1.96.2'.

satoru42on Red Programming Language

Yes, this reminds me of meta-programming in languages like Python, it's useful if you want to create a framework like Django, but if you work on products, chances are good you should not use it.

satoru42on Red Programming Language

I like the idea of DSL, but in real projects, I hate almost every DSL introduced by coworkers.

satoru42on Librarians are dangerous

I thought the author was describing a chatbot when reading the first half of this article.

satoru42on Docker Desktop Broken on Mac OS Update for over a Week

I really like Orbstack, switched to it and never looked back.

satoru42on Fly.io is having a complete outage

Mine is in Asia and it's still accessible.

satoru42on Please add a "dark" theme for Hacker News

Aren't Hacker News users supposed to be able to hack it easily?

satoru42on Compressing Text into Images

This doesn't work if you use utf-8 instead of ascii.

satoru42on Blending Is All You Need: Cheaper, Better Alternative to Trillion-Parameters LLM

According to the paper, it just selects one AI randomly and then uses it to generate the next response.

satoru42on “My current thinking about Python asyncio & why I hate it”

> The bottom-line is that if I were tasked with implementing a server that must handle thousands of concurrent users (or substitute your other favorite async use-case), I would pick gevent or a tool like golang over asyncio every time.

Me too! If I have to remember to add await and async to avoid accidentally breaking my code, why don't I just write in Go instead? At least I get some safety checks from the compiler.

satoru42on SQLite the only database you will ever need in most cases (2021)

You didn't add all points to Strength so you could only be a "application developer", did you?

satoru42on Is remote work bad for the economy?

It is said that in many cities in China the governments actually did something similar. They broke parts of the roads repeatedly so that they could rebuild them later.

satoru42on South Dakota first to ban TikTok on state-owned devices

How much dumb content does it take for one to believe such bullshit? Of course, the system are rewarding dumb content all over the world, because dumb people are the majority all over this planet.

satoru42on A distributed Posix file system built on top of Redis and S3

Yes, commands like `ls` are very fast as long as you are near the metadata server (Redis in this case).